Beylerbey Ilyas of Khorasan

Beylerbey Ilyas of Khorasan (1028-) was the Beylerbey of Khorasan under the Seljuk Empire.

Biography
Beylerbey Ilyas of Khorasan was born in 1028 to a Sunni Muslim Turkish family, the House of Seljuk. He was the son of Chagri Beg. Ilyas became the Beylerbey of Khorasan, an important province of the Seljuk Empire, and he conducted campaigns both to the east against the Tengri nomadic tribes of Central Asia and to the west against the Byzantine Empire. On 17 September 1081 he declared the Khorasian conquest of Aral against High Chief Abu'l-Fawaris of Oghuz, a rival Muslim warlord.